


Despite the fact that the author never once mentions the political situation in the country, recurring themes – feelings of latent threat, the suffering protagonists went through during their difficult time doing military service, the corpse of the victim of a suicide bomb – remind the reader of what it must be like to live in Tel Aviv and other places in Israel.

Many of the stories are based in Israel. "A Jürgen inside": Despite the wealth of bizarre ideas and fantastical events the author juggles, there is a melancholy undertone to most of the stories
